The YHA isn’t known for its gregariousness – you’ll get plenty of sleep in the spacious and comfortable rooms here. This is a seriously schmick hostel with great security, a roomy kitchen and lounge area, and immaculate bathrooms. A real step up from the average backpacker places around town. Parking is around $12 per day, but the pancake breakfasts are free.


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1. JamFactory

0.26 MILES

Quality contemporary local arts and crafts and brilliant bejewelments, plus workshops and a hellishly hot glass-blowing studio turning out gorgeous glass …

2. Central Market

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3. Adelaide Town Hall

0.28 MILES

Built in 1866 under the guidance of architect Edmund W Wright, Adelaide's impressive stone Town Hall presides over King William St, locked in an eternal…

4. MOD.

0.33 MILES

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5. Mall's Balls

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Check out the infamous and very shiny Mall’s Balls sculpture in Rundle Mall (real name Spheres, by sculptor Burt Flugelman).

6. Migration Museum

0.6 MILES

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7. South Australian Museum

0.6 MILES

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8. Art Gallery of South Australia

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Spend a few hushed hours in the vaulted, parquetry-floored gallery that represents the big names in Australian art. Permanent exhibitions include…